Yes, definitely looks more like a weapon with that thinness of blade, lightness helps with speed.
Fire axes/hatchets tend to be chunkier designed to break through doors or open up the roof to let smoke out. So, not a fire axe after all.
Normal, of course, to have a steel insert for the blade. Unusual that the spike maybe steel as well.
Sorry, can't help with the maker's mark.
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